WIN a RockBLOCK Mk2 Iridium sat comms unit

As promised earlier this week, today we're giving readers the chance to win an all-new RockBLOCK Mk2 Iridium satellite comms unit, courtesy of our chums at Rock Seven. The RockBLOCK "allows you to send and receive short messages from anywhere on Earth with a clear view of the sky" via Iridium Short Burst Data (SBD), offering …

[Anonymous Coward]

POLDARK

Precisely Observed Last Demonstration And Reconnaissance Kit (POLDARK)

Go forth and progress, despite the nay sayers!

[Anonymous Coward]

Big Ultra Long-range Low-orbit Stratospheric High-altitude Interference Test

(P.S. : I don't want nor need the module so if I win you can give the thing to Paul Shackleton... )

[lawndart]

Lohan

Operability

Review

Decision

Should

Have

Another

eXperiment

[elDog]

SOFTBALL - Strap One Of These to a balloon

http://media.bestofmicro.com/I/7/337615/original/phone.jpg

Iridium 9575 Extreme: First Impression and Specs

The 9575 is not what kids would imagine a phone to look like today. Its appearance and weight is closer to the mid-90s versions of Nokia or Motorola phones. This particular version is dust- and spill-proof (as it is meant to be used outside with direct view to satellites) and covered in a sturdy rubber padding that prevents damage to the phone when it is dropped.

It has a monochrome display (no, it’s not a touch screen) that can show basic graphics, but will, 99 percent of the time, be used for text. The display can show up to 200 characters at once. The phone can text via SMS and supports short emails, has a phone book (up to 100 entries), voicemail, and a choice of eight ring and alert tones. Standby time is about 30 hours; talk time is up to 3.5 hours. These are very conservative numbers. I have seen standby times of up to 45 hours during my review of the phone. The entire phone is 140 x 60 x 27 mm in size, which is about as wide as an iPhone, but the 9575 is significantly longer than and three times as deep as Apple’s phone. It’s not the phone that hides itself in your suit pocket. The phone is even larger when you actually call, as it needs a massive satellite antenna that is pulled out of the shell.

[I Am Spartacus]

Total Integration Test of System Uninterruptable Power

[chebucto]

JUMPER

How about

Jet Under Meteorological Paraphernalia Experimental Research

or just

Jetting Under Meteorological Paraphernalia El Reg

[stringyfloppy]

Secret Multinational Operation Keyed to Eradicate Hillary's Email Memory Powers (SMOKEHEMP)

[Knewbie]

FUCKFAA

Final Use of Complicated Keywords before Flying an Awsome Airplane

[JoniPelham]

TITILLATE LOHAN

TITILLATE LOHAN

This Is The Incredibly Late & Last Airborne Test & Evaluation of LOHAN

[ozfoggy]

How 'bout AFUQ?

A Few Unanswered Questions

[Sly]

NICKERS

Nicely Integrated Controls Kicking Experimental Radio Signals

[MrT]

Rock those blocks!

HARRIS: High Altitude Reconnaissance Received by Iridium Satellites

LEADER: Last Effort At Determining Exact Requirements

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chock-A-Block

[Phuq Witt]

FART-BREATH

Final Aerial Reconnaissance Testing Battery, Radio, Electronics And Temperamental Hardware

[Icon for what hopefully WON'T happen!]

[Anomalous Cowturd]

FART-PANTS

Final Assessment of Radios and Telemetry Prior to Awesome Near Terrestrial Spaceflight.

[Zbig]

LEFTSHARK

Largely Enhanced Flight Test: Several Hertz Antenna Range Knockout

[deshepherd]

YAWN

About time we got self-referential about all these names so time for

Yet Another Witty Name

[x 7]

STRUMPET

Stratospheric / Tropospheric Radio Ultra-Maximum Performance Extreme Test

[Zbig]

ACRONYM

Advanced Cosmic Remote Operation, Not Yet Misogynist

[the spectacularly refined chap]

FRIG

Further Research on Instrumentation Gremlins.

[x 7]

HARLOT

High Altitude Radio Lohann Operational Test

[chivo243]

SOHARD?

Secound

Outing

High

Atmospheric

Readings

Distinction?

[Zbig]

HAVE-A-BREWSKY

High Altitude Vehicle Evaluation: A Battery Reliability Estimation Without Stinking Knotty Yoke

[Zbig]

LUCY

LOHAN Unleashed, Communication Yearning

[Captain DaFt]

ATTA B-BOY!

Another Test Taken Aloft, Because Bureaucrats are Ornery Yutzes

[Phil W]

LOHAN: COCK TEASE

Complete Onboard Component Knowledge Testing Endeavour And Survivability Experiment.

[Anonymous Coward]

TRIDGE

Tiny Radio Installation Diagnostics General Enquiry

He did donate the device, so it only seems fair.

Cheers

Jon

PS He also gave the world SAMBA 8)

[John Brown (no body)]

HAINES

High Altitude Initiation of New Energy System.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: HAINES

RLY - trying for teacher's pet status?

[John Brown (no body)]

Re: HAINES

Gawd no! Just following on from the previous "LESTER" acronym".

[Alan Esworthy]

THIGH Test

Telecoms High-altitude Investigation and General Heuristic Test

[willi0000000]

FIDGET

Final Incredibly Delayed Glorious Endurance Test

[Anonymous Coward]

SELFIE FAIL

Given recent problems some celebs have had with PhotoShop, how about:

Stratospheric

Experimental

LOHAN

Flight

Intended to

Eliminate

Fail

(Prize to be donated to Lord Shax...)

[Tromos]

Advancing Space Science - High Altitude Test

[Marcus Fil]

CLARKSON

Continued

LOHAN

Altitude

Research

for

Knowledge

of

Sub-

Orbital

Navigation

(someone who should have empathy with being cast out into the cold)

[Gingerbeard Man]

BRISTOLS

Battery &

Radio

Integration

Stratospheric

Test

Of

LOHAN

Systems

[derfer]

TANLINE

Test at Altitude Nominal Limitations Involving Normal Equipment

[imanidiot]

SEXTAPE

Serious EXploration of Tropsheric Aerospace Power Equipment

[imanidiot]

Re: SEXTAPE

Dang, how did that typo go unnoticed. Should ofcourse be:

Serious EXploration of Tropospheric Aerospace Power Equipment

[Anonymous Coward]

Last Incontrovertible Proof Showing Your Nose[cone]'s Clean

[fnordianslip]

FUCKED

Final

UHF

Communications

Kit

Experimental

Design

[Red Bren]

PHALLUS

Penultimate

High

Altitude

Long range

Link

Usage

Simulation

[x 7]

Re: PHALLUS

shouldn't that last word be "stimulation"?

[Eugene Crosser]

UDDER

Ultra Distant Discovery & Emergency Radio

[RocketGuy]

PENIS

Penultimate Experiment in Navigational Investigation of the Stratosphere

[Wilfred in Oz.]

STORE

Stratospheric Test 'Orrible Rocket Experiment

[Wilfred in Oz.]

STORE

Stratospheric Test of 'Orrible Rocket EXperiment

[Colin Miller]

FIST(ing)

Final Integration of Systems Test

[Martin Budden]

LUBE

LOHAN's Ultimate Balloon Experiment